Ethiopian to Resume Flights to Mogadishu

Addis Ababa October 16/12018 Ethiopian Airlines will resume its flight to Mogadishu, Somalia, effective from 2 November 2018, according to a statement sent to ENA. Tewolde Gebremariam, Group CEO of Ethiopian Airlines, said “It gives us a great pleasure to resume flights to Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia after stopping the service over four decades ago.” “I wish to express my gratitude to the Governments of Ethiopia and Somalia for making the resumption of these flights possible,” he added. Accordingly, the flights will play a significant role in strengthening the people-to-people and economic ties between the two neighboring countries. The flights will also enable the Somali Diaspora in the Americas, Europe, Asia, Middle East, and Africa to travel to their homeland via Addis Ababa using the airlines' global network of over 116 international destinations, Tewolde stated. “Our flights will quickly grow to multiple daily flights given the huge volume of traffic between the two sisterly countries and the significant traffic between Somalia and the rest of the world,” he affirmed. The resumption of the service to Somalia came 41 years after Ethiopian Airlines Group stopped its route to Mogadishu in the 1970s.